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Cattle brands are registered, and the muleshoe one (an inverted U) is semi-famous. On this day in 1860, cattleman and soon-to-be Confederate veteran Henry Black registered the brand, though others elsewhere in the west would also register variations of it. By the time of his death in 1906, Black’s Muleshoe Ranch covered 10,000 acres of Stephens County, in north Texas west of Fort Worth, and he owned another 30,000 acres.